Optical metrology and machine vision systems for complex hardware programs.
Iris Optics is a technical knowledge hub and consulting practice for optical metrology, machine vision, manufacturing test, and AI-enabled inspection. We help engineering teams build robust systems, validate test methods, and deploy repeatable production-ready workflows.
Specialized Expertise In
Complex optical programs often fail at the interfaces: physics to hardware, prototype to production, internal lab to supplier site, measurement data to quality decision. Iris Optics focuses on those interfaces.
Featured Technical Guides
Rigorous, vendor-neutral engineering articles to help hardware teams navigate optical inspection and metrology.
Machine Vision Lens Selection Guide
A practical guide to calculating focal length, sensor matching, and field of view for industrial imaging systems.
Gage R&R for Optical Inspection Systems
A framework for characterizing measurement system variation, repeatability, and reproducibility in high-precision optical metrology.
Core Services
Iris Optics supports projects where optical performance, measurement rigor, and manufacturing reality have to meet.
Optical Metrology System Design
End-to-end design of custom optical measurement systems (including MTF/CTF, stray light, wavefront, radiometry, and photometry) tailored to your hardware and performance requirements.
Machine Vision & Automated Optical Inspection
Developing robust automated optical inspection (AOI) workflows and defect detection algorithms with integrated production decision logic.
Manufacturing Test Development
Translating laboratory-grade optical measurements into rugged, high-throughput manufacturing test stations.
Supplier & Cross-Site Test Correlation
Aligning optical measurement results across internal R&D labs and global supplier sites to satisfy Outgoing Quality Control (OQC) requirements.
Test Data Analysis & Dashboards
Building pipelines and interactive dashboards to monitor optical KPIs, yield metrics, and process capability (Cpk) trends.
Failure Analysis & Root Cause Support
Investigating complex optical performance issues and identifying the root cause.
From optical problem to production-ready test system
Understand
the measurement problem
Define
KPIs, CTQs, and acceptance criteria
Prototype
the optical / imaging / data workflow
Validate
repeatability, accuracy, and correlation
Deploy
with SOPs, dashboards, and decision logic
Featured Representative Work
AR/VR Waveguide OQC Dashboard
Building a test-data dashboard for optical KPI monitoring, lot disposition, yield analysis, and cross-vendor comparison.
Rainbow Stray Light Analysis Framework
Developing image-processing and perceptual metrics for stray light characterization.
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